Idolator Hanson premiered the music video for their bright-and-bluesy new single “Thinking ‘Bout Somethin’” on MySpace Music today, and it’s basically a shot-by-shot remake of the song-and-dance number “Shake A Tail Feather” from the 1980 comedy-musical The Blues Brothers. Sort of an odd homage for the trio to make, considering oldest Hanson bro Isaac was… Read More »
NY Mag Yes, and the song is called “Thinkin’ Bout Something” off their eighth (eighth!) album, Shout It Out, which comes out June 8. Must admit, the song is catchy.
EW.com Music Mix If you’d told me yesterday that I would like the video for Hanson’s new single, “Thinkin’ Bout Something,” then I would have said, “I’m fairly sure that’s not true, because I don’t particularly care for them.” And if you’d tried to persuade me otherwise by saying that the clip pays homage to… Read More »
Zap2It When we first heard that “American Idol” contestant Siobhan Magnus has a Hanson tattoo — a group whose hit “MMMBop” came out when she was all of 7-years-old — we just put it down as another one of those things that makes her the quirky gal that she is. Now we think she might… Read More »
HitFix We love the fact that history is looking very positively at Hanson, whom some critics dismissed as a just another boy band when the three boys first appeared in the mid-‘90s. “MMMBop” routinely shows up on best pop singles of all time lists, as it rightfully should. (The notoriously snooty Village Voice Pazz &… Read More »
Student Life Cadenza returns to our series “What Ever Happened To…?” chronicling the triumphs and misadventures of the stars of our youth. This week: Frankie Muniz of “Malcolm in the Middle.” He might still only be 5 feet 5 inches and 120 pounds, but make no mistake; Frankie Muniz is all grown up. He ditched… Read More »
Guardian.co.uk From St Winifred’s School Choir to Hanson, are children’s angelic voices really the most hated sound in pop? What is it? Children! Singing! Er, obviously. Singing kids have surfaced in one-off singles by many bands since Pink Floyd’s 1979 youth-refusenik anthem Another Brick in the Wall Part II. The next year, St Winifred’s School… Read More »
Daily Gate City Picture it: A hot summer day in Keokuk in 1997. If you had a trampoline or a swimming pool in your backyard, guess what? You had at least one new best friend. At age 11, I was ashamed to say that my backyard held neither of those attractions. So of course I… Read More »
KTUL Tulsa, OK – Tulsa’s own music trio of brothers raised money for charity tonight. Hanson led a barefoot walk. The music group and dozens of their fans walked a mile without shoes along Brookside Thursday evening. It’s an effort to fight poverty around the world. The walk raises money for “One Day Without Shoes.”… Read More »
AltSongs April 9, 2010, 03:20 PM Views: 173 Comments: 0 by jack s HANSON is excited to announce the release of their new record, Shout It Out, on their own 3CG Records on June 8, 2010. Shout It Out is the three -time Grammy-nominated independent band of brothers’ fifth studio record. It’s a fantastically infectious… Read More »